 Welcome to Geneva and the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, and welcome to the 2022 World Summit on the Information Society Forum. This is the world's largest gathering of the ICT for Development community, with delegates welcomed by ITU's Secretary-General, Paul Inxiao. The pandemic started two and a half years ago, so I'm very pleased to see so many friends and participants here. One of the key themes this year is the promotion of well-being, inclusion and resilience by ensuring access to information and communication technologies for all groups in society. Some of the things that we've seen that are holding us back are, for example, the fact that we work in silos, that it's very difficult to admit and to change cultural norms which are behind so much of the stereotyping that is affecting women's ability to participate in tech. Digital technology can enable a better life, a healthier life, a more active life, a more fun and a happier life, and focused on older persons as the UN calls us. It gives us a particular lever for that. Attending this year are hundreds of participants from governments, civil society, the private sector, academia, the tech community and intergovernmental organizations. And advancing the UN's sustainable development goals using new technologies is at the heart of the WISIS Forum. I saw it for myself the benefit of a project in Thailand which was bringing Wi-Fi to the villages in Thailand. The farmers were selling rice. Because they had the Wi-Fi they were able to promote their product and their profits went up substantially so that through their sales and profits they were able to benefit the village. The forum is hosted by the ITU and co-organized by UNESCO, the UN Development Program, the UN Conference on Trade and Development and a host of other major organizations. And the program is completely crowdsourced to give voice to the widest range of views and priorities. It's a problem for us to think about in our everyday workplaces, formal and informal how we make sense of these tools and devices and how we can prepare people to be not only better workers and ready to work in the system but better citizens and able to ask the right questions and raise their voices in in full participation in a digital society. WISIS Forum is the leading global platform for the creation of a fairer information society. It provides an exceptional opportunity for knowledge creation and knowledge exchange in a way that leaves no one behind.